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Gleebooks booksellers will have a stall at Pier 4/5 and Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay. Titles of all writers appearing in the Festival will be available for purchase and signings.?
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Tel: + 61 2 9252 7729
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Held Monday 19 May - Sunday 25 May, 2003
This year's event continued the Festival's tradition of bringing together leading writers from Australia and abroad to discuss issues and ideas of importance. At a time when seismic shifts in world affairs demand our urgent consideration, the Festival was in a unique position to present a range of perspectives, from analysis of the big picture to the deeply personal.
In particular, the complexity of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East was examined by Palestinian and Israeli writers, and acclaimed British scholar Antony Beevor discussed war through the lens of the historian.
US author Jonathan Franzen explained how to be alone, while French intellectual Catherine Millet talked candidly about sex and intimacy. Prominent Australians, including Ghassan Hage articulated their visions for the nation, while John Birmingham and Alan Saunders discussed whether Sydney really is a harbour paradise.
Festival 2003 celebrated the imaginative world with a line-up of exceptional novelists and poets. Internationally renowned writers, including Janette Turner Hospital, David Malouf, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sonya Hartnett and CK Stead were joined by exciting new voices.
As always, there was lots of hilarity too. A trip back to the 70s with Graham Blundell, Melbourne funny guy Danny Katz in bed and an evening of Karaoke poetry! Writers Mandy Sayer and Louis Nowra conducted a literary walking tour of Kings Cross.
And, for the first time, we offered events for children at the Festival venue including leading writers Andy Griffiths and John Larkin.
View the 2003 Program
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Rowena Danziger AM was Headmistress of Ascham School from 1973-2003. She was a member of the Board of Opera Australia from 1989–2009, including a period as Chairman (2001-2003). Rowena is currently Chairman of the Foundation of the Art Gallery of NSW, and is a board member of both Crown Ltd and Consolidated Media Holdings.
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Sydney Writers' Festival currently is without peer in Australia and is recognised both locally and internationally as one of the world's finest literary celebrations.
In 2009 the Festival reached attendance figures of more than 81,000 at over 350 events.
The Festival's reach continues to increase. This year, audiences turned out in their thousands to events across central Sydney and out to Liverpool, Campbelltown, Auburn, Blacktown, Parramatta, Penrith, Newcastle, Wollongong and the Blue Mountains to listen to more than 400 authors inspire them with their eloquence, wisdom and ideas.
Our commitment to innovation, compelling programming, intellectual rigor, diversity and professionalism has proved that in this particular cultural arena, Sydney is leading Australia.
As we look to 2010, Sydney Writers' Festival has much to celebrate. The Festival has grown from strength to strength with each year and has decisively claimed a leading position in the Australian cultural events calendar and is enjoying an excellent international reputation.
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This year marked some exciting changes, new developments and growth
for Australia?s boldest literary event. Not only did we have an exciting
line-up of more than 200 international and local guests to interest,
engage and inspire audiences, but we also had a new venue to
accommodate the growing number of people who come to the festival. The Festival was delighted to make use of the beautiful,
new (and very large) Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay as a complement to our
much loved Wharf 4/5. We were proud to feature the premier English dramatist, Alan Bennett, who was interviewed live, via satellite, for the festival?s opening night. Prestigious author, the 2003 Man Booker prize winner, DBC Pierre, spoke about his book Vernon God Little, the death of satire and the media, and philosopher Alain de Botton talked about Status Anxiety. Hilary Mantel, British critic and author, joined us, as did Tim Krabbe from the Netherlands, the best-selling author of The Vanishing. Susanna Moore spoke to film director Jane Campion about their collaboration on Moore?s book In the Cut. Louis de Bernieres spoke about and read from his new release, Birds Without Wings. From Iraq we had a young man with the pseudonym of Salam Pax. He?ll talked about that famous weblog and what?s really going on in his war-torn country now. John W. Dean, former Nixon counsel, presented an insider?s view of US politics and discussed his new book, Worse than Watergate. We were proud to bring you Harvey Pekar, whose comics were the focus of the cult film American Splendor, Alexei Sayle, author and famous comedian, and the very up-and-coming American short-story writer ZZ Packer. David Sedaris, a columnist for The New Yorker and Esquire and an acclaimed and very funny author, appeared at the Sydney Theatre. View the 2004 Program |
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ABC TV Studio
700 Harris Street, Ultimo
Ariel Booksellers
42 Oxford
Street, Paddington
Art Gallery of NSW
(AGNSW)
Art Gallery Road, The Domain
B?casse Restaurant
204 Clarence Street, Sydney
Cafe Sydney
5th
floor, Customs House,
31 Alfred
Street, Circular Quay
Chauvel Cinema (CC)
Paddington
Town Hall, Corner Oxford and Oatley Streets, Paddington
Chauvel
Infoline 9361 5398
City Recital Hall
Angel Place (CRH)
Angel Place
is adjacent to Martin Place at Wynyard.
Parking is available at Wilson Parking
Angel Place Car Park, 123 Pitt Street.
$16 flat rate after 5.00pm
Cockatoo Island (CI)
The Parramatta River service now stops at Cockatoo Island. It departs from Wharf 5 at Circular Quay. Tickets cost $5.20 one way and $10.40 return.
Weekend
ferry timetable:
- Circular
Quay to Cockatoo Island 8.05, 8.50, 10.00, 10.45, 12.00, 12.45, 13.45
- Cockatoo
Island to Circular Quay 14.15, 15.15, 15.38, 16.39, 17.15, 18.00, 18,40, 19.25
Customs House, Barnet Long Room and
Library Meeting Room (CHL)
31 Alfred
Street, Circular Quay (opposite Circular Quay train station)
Danks Street Depot
1/2 Danks Street, Waterloo
Hopetoun Hotel
416 Bourke
St, Surry Hills
Hyde Park Barracks
Museum (HPBM)
Queens Square, Macquarie Street, Sydney
InterContinental Sydney
(IC)
Corner Bridge and Phillip Streets,
Sydney
Sydney Jewish Museum
(SJM)
148
Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst
Justice and Police
Museum (JPM)
Corner Phillip and Albert Streets,
Circular Quay
Kinokuniya Galleries
Level 2, The
Galeries Victoria,
500 George
Street, Sydney
La Perouse Public
School
Yarra Road,
La Perouse
Macquarie University (MU)
Balaclava
Road, North Ryde
Museum of Sydney, AGL Theatre (MoS)
Corner Bridge
and Phillip Streets, Sydney
Paddington Town Hall
Corner Oxford Street and Oatley Road,
Paddington
Powerhouse Museum
(PHM)
500 Harris St, Ultimo
Simmer on the Bay
Shore 2-3, 13 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
Susannah Place
Museum (SPM)
58-64
Gloucester Street, The Rocks
State Library of New
South Wales (SLNSW)
Macquarie Street, Sydney
Sydney Observatory
(SO)
Watson Road, Observatory Hill, Millers
Point
Sydney Opera House
(SOH)
Bennelong Point, Sydney
Sydney Town Hall
(TH)
483 George Street, Sydney
The Mint (TM)
10 Macquarie St, Sydney
The Tearoom, QVB
(QVB)
Level 3,
Market Street end of QVB
University of
Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Lecture Theatre 4.13, Building 2, No. 1
Broadway, Ultimo
Vaucluse House
Wentworth Road, Vaucluse
Wharf Restaurant
End
of Pier 4/5, Walsh Bay
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